The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
IN Connecticut gang of tramps killed and ate
farmers deg that interfered with them.

In Connecticut gang of tramps killed and ate
farmers deg that interfered with them.
WORK has been commenced on the big Mexi-
can Custom House. at Paso del Norte. 1t is ex-
pected to be finished within year.
PETER LAWSON, a Swede. of Goshen, Cal, is 96
years Old and confidently expects to live many
years yet, because, as he declares, his grand
mother lived to be 126 years old.
For several weeks a noble eagle measuring
nearly six feet from tip to tip of its wings, made
its nightly perch on the steepe of the First
Baptist church in Galveston. Then came along
gun and killed it.
FARMER STAUFFER, of Montgomery, Pa. has a
big black hog that is particularly unfrendly to
fishermen Already this fall he has chased sew
eral parties off the farm, and has bitten three Of
these fishermen, one of them severely.
A POST OFFICE ENPLoYE says that the glimmed
surface of a postage stamp should never be
placed on the tongue. Moisten the other side of
the stamp and the corner of the envelope, or the
latter only, and the stamp will stick for all it is
worth.
A CARRIER PIGEON which flew into a shop
at Spencer, Mass, had under his wing paper
bearing the request: "Give me some corn and
water to drink and battle and let me GO" After
the directions had been complied with the bird
went onits way.
HOWARD r. DEACON, of Philadelphia, cut his
great toe while trimming the nail and claimed
compensation from accident insurance asso-
citation for one weeks total disability. The as
ISOLATION refused to pay it until suit was brought
and then it payed up.
AN INGENIOUS FELLOW is travelling through
Pennsylvania selling "a valuable preparation
warranted to polish tinware." This valuable
preparation is wood ashes which he begS from
the farmers along the road, sits, put up in neat
boxes and sells for 25c. a box.
ONE Of the oldest bands in the country is said
to be the american" which celebrated the
semicentennial anniversary of its organization
at Providence, R. L., this week. All the Survlv-
ing members of the band at its formation, four
in number, were present and took part In the
ceremonies.
ONE of the inmates of an Indiana reformatory
for young women was released on a two weeks
parole and took the occasion to be married
This being clearly against the rules of the insti-
tuition and the laws Of the State, which forbids
marriage under such circumstances, the bride is
spending the honeymoon in prison
GEORGE OGLEsBY. of Waco, Tex, has gone
into the bloodhound business and has the finest
kennel in the United States He is encouraged
in his business by the increased frequency of
deeds of violence, and thinks that If the re-
volver law is repealed, his dogs will come into
great demand to hunt bad men with.
LIBRARIAN HUBBELL, of the Pittsfield O1ass)
Atheneum. was surprised on entering the art
gallery recently to find that some person had
draped all the large statues with curtain lace.
Some of the figures presented a very ludicrouS
appearance On Apollo Belvidere was paper
ON which was written "Clothe the naked.
A MULE DEER and a fallow buck, whose pens
in the Philadelphia Geological Gardens were
separated by a fence, got together the other
night and were found in the morning with their
horns interlocked in deadly combat. 1t required
the eXertonS of three keepers to separate them
and when this was accomplished the deer chased
the men from the pen. The keepers triumphed
in the end.
HIRAM Brown, of Peoria, ILL.,, was 90 years old
the other day. and seventy-five big and little
Browns assembled to do honor to the patriarch
He went to school in Cummington Mass, with
William Cullen Bryant, and was deacon in the
Congregational church there until he became an
Aboltionist Then the brethren went back on
him and threw stones at him after dark, and so
the deacon became free thinker.
A CALIFORNIAN, largely interested in the fur
seal industry, says that sealskins are expensive
not because they are scarce, but because the
trade limits the supply. If all the skins that
could be taken were poured on the market, the
fur would become so common that it would
cease to be desired by the wealthy. So the seal
catchers agree upon the total number that they
will put upon the market, and they make their
report TO the furrers of London and Paris, who
meet each spring and decide upon prices.
A CITIZEN of Norwich, Conn, who had stocked
his pond with rare and handsome breed of
ducks, found that they were slowly disappear
ing, but where they went he could not deter
mine. One day, visitor, sitting on his pizza
said, You've got queer ducks. I've seen two
of them dive, but they haven't come up yet :"
This was a suggestion to be acted upon. The
owner drew off the water from the pond and
| found seventeen swapping turtles at the bottom.
| He killed them, and now the ducks come up
| again when they dive.
A MAINE PHYSICIAN says that one day he saw
| big crane standing on a log floating near the
shore of the Kennebec river. The crane had
| captured large bug which he would drop into
the stream so that it floated down past him, and
| then would grab it again and repeat the per
| Torrance at intervals He kept this up for
| nearly half an hour, and then picl1erel darted
what the bird had been waiting for, and the
next moment the fish was down his throat, and
he was winging his way slowly up stream.
LIEUT.. T. H. CROSBY, United States navy, who
had comm md of the United States coast and
| geodetic survey steamer Gedney in the Gulf in
| 1885, reported that there was said to be a place
| about fifteen miles west of Sabine Pass where
there is soft liquid mud on the beach off which
| small fishing craft ride out gales very comfort
| ably. 1t was said there was no bottom to this
mud and that small vessels run right in for the
| beach. stick in the mud, let go an anchor TO
L.
| The sea breaks outside, while the mud remains
| smooth
| A REsTAURATER in Providence, r. l., secured q
| dozen or quails few days before the game
law was off and was arranging them in his ice
box one morning when a friend told him that
| he was liable TO fine of 500 for each bird found
| in his possession. The birds were put away out
| of sight, but at noon one of his customers
| looked over the bill of fare and asked: "'Have
you any quails?" No" replied the proprietor
1.-The law won't let Lie keep them but have
| some of the best limitations of quails that you
| ever saw" The limitations were ordered and
pronounced equal to the real thing.
| DR.. D. X. PEARsoNs, of Chicago who recently
gave property worth $4,000 to the Women S
| Presbyterian Board of Missions of the North
west, $4,000 to the Congregational Theological
| Seminary and the same amount to the Presby-
| terrain Theological Seminary. to be used for the
| education or worthy young men, made these
gifts on the ground that he desired to give away
a portion of his estate in his lifetime instead Of
| by will after his death. He had previously
| given $4,000 to the Presbyterian chapel and
| $4,000 to the Young Mems Christian Associa-
| ton of Chicago making $4,000 in ALL
A NOVEL CRAFT is being built in Montreal It
| is steam catamaran, each of the cigar-shaped
hus being of Steel 65 feet long, and built in two
compartments, one being for water ballast and
the other for stove coal oil which will be used
for fuel. Two vertical engines will furnish
| the power to two propeerS, which are so ar
ranged that they will lift themselves out of the
way when the bulls strike floating ice or other
obstacles. The boat can be taken anart and